Powerspout’s a ‘goer’ :-)

After the mainly wet and windy Saturday, Sunday could not have been more different, it was, right from the start brilliant, well apart from the headache 😦 A late night and friend for dinner with two fine bottles of red led us a little astray 🙂 Still it didn’t stop me, or my team from getting up early and feeding everyone. The morning at least had us down to one quad so work over at the loch to restart the siphon was out for the moment.

So instead we headed over to Brochel to load up some road sweepings to patch up my drive.

 

It really had the makings of a fine day.

After our road work, breakfast, arrival of quad number two and loading up pump and tools we set off for Loch Beag.

There was not a breath of wind up there and we soon had the pump going and pipe bled.

Though do need someone brave (or daft) to turn off the bleed valves 🙂

 

 

Penstock bled but with the pump still running it was off to check the turbine and fit its new hat 🙂

 

With the champion of the ‘Raasay digger challenge’ and runner up in the lead we made the mile or so journey in no time 🙂

Though there were a few leaks that needed sorting out before I could turn my attention to the new roof 🙂

A good deal of PTFE tape around the hose tails and some severe clamping with a ratchet soon had it down to just a few drips from the MDPE couplings which were struggling to seal on the rather scratched blue pipe. It had after all been towed seven miles down the road 🙂

Once the boys had fitted the roof we coupled up a meter and let her rip 🙂

 

To say I was well pleased would be putting it mildly, still 90psi or 6.2bar of head with the turbine producing 1Kw, not that I could actually check that but the voltage was right. All I need now is the cable and inverter 😦

A few more days like this 🙂 Ard Torran, Glas Eilean, Brothers point and Harris in the background,

porpoises in Loch Arnish

and a fine view from the new house site 🙂 what a holiday, and I’ve not gone anywhere 🙂